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[PATCH v2] CodingGuidelines: Added note about position of 'else' in C programs.

From: Leila Muhtasib <hidden>
Date: 2016-06-15 22:54:04
Subsystem: documentation, the rest · Maintainers: Jonathan Corbet, Linus Torvalds

During code review of some patches, it was noted that 'else' should
appear on the same line as the closing '}' of its 'if' block.

Signed-off-by: Leila Muhtasib <redacted>
---
 Documentation/CodingGuidelines |    3 +++
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
index 4557711..99588f0 100644
--- a/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
+++ b/Documentation/CodingGuidelines
@@ -123,6 +123,9 @@ For C programs:
 
  - We try to avoid assignments inside if().
 
+ - "else" should be positioned on the same line as the closing
+   "}" of its "if" block.
+
  - Try to make your code understandable.  You may put comments
    in, but comments invariably tend to stale out when the code
    they were describing changes.  Often splitting a function
-- 
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